Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
LIVYLaw is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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